Weekly Newsletter – Issue 133 – June 19, 2022

The Church in New York City

WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

Issue No. 133   June 19, 2022

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Registration for the 2022 Northeast Summer School of Truth
The registration details for the 2022 Northeast Summer School of Truth are as follows:

TOPIC: Lesson Book Level 3: Two Spirits — The Divine Spirit and the Human Spirit

DATES: 

LOCATION: Kingston Penuel Christian Center (KPCC) also known as Camp Penuel

COST: 

DEADLINE: Monday, July 18, 2022.

For registration and more information, please visit the website: www.pursuewiththose.org or fellowship with the young people’s serving ones in your district.

Service Office Hours

Service Office hours are available for saints to call in to fellowship or to pray with some serving ones.

Day & Time: Monday through Saturday (except Wednesday), 10:30AM-11:30AM.
Zoom link:  
https://zoom.us/j/3785123114?pwd=dEpzN2ZGZ21aaGV5dTFob3AwQlBodz09
Meeting ID: 378 512 3114
Passcode: 3131
One tap mobile: +19294362866,, 3785123114#

The burden for holding these office hours is that the hearts of the saints can be comforted and that their souls would be restored.

PRAYER BURDENS

• Thanksgiving to the Lord for the salvation of 22 children in grades 5 and 6 in the gospel meeting last Saturday:
  • That they all would have the joy of their
    salvation and the inward witness that they are children of God (Rom. 8:16)
  • That each child would have a genuine
    experience of baptism
  • For the salvation of the children in grade 5 who did not make it to the gospel meeting last Saturday
  • Household salvation
• The strengthening of the church in NYC:
  • That all the saints would be burdened for the salvation of their friends, relatives, neighbors, co-workers and classmates
  • The strengthening of the church meetings and small group meetings this week
  • The strengthening of all the practical services in the church
• The Northeast Summer College Training being held at Camp Penuel this week
• The release of the word in the upcoming July semiannual training
• The strengthening and spread of the Lord’s testimony in the United States:
  • The ongoing migrations to various cities in the Midwest, Mid Atlantic and Southeast and the strengthening of these churches
  • The Midwest–The Summer School of Truth Teachers’ Training held online this past Saturday and the various Summer Schools of Truth being held throughout the Midwest this week
• The various needs of the saints both locally and in other localities (e.g. physical and emotional, health-related, job-related, family-related, etc.)

MORNING WATCH

HWMR: Crystallization-Study of 1&2 Samuel
Week 7: David Typifying Christ, the Real David—the King of the Coming Kingdom of God

Portion from Days 2 & 5:

The highest place in the universe is the right hand of God….Christ’s ascension is not merely a matter of His being in a place but of His being in a person, the Father. In His ascension Christ entered into the Father’s being and sat down there. 

In the New Testament we are told that in His ascension Christ has been made by God the Lord, the Christ, the Leader of the entire universe, and the Savior (Acts 2:36; 5:31; 10:36). This concerns Christ’s kingship.  

According to Psalm 110:1, Christ is sitting at God’s right hand until God makes Christ’s enemies His footstool….Christ is on the throne, but He is still in need of a footstool. Thus, God is endeavoring to subdue all of Christ’s enemies and to make them His footstool. Our fighting today is for the subduing of Christ’s enemies. (Life-study of the Psalms, pp. 129-130, 431-433).

David’s house refers to Christ, David’s kingdom refers to Christ’s kingdom, and David’s throne refers to Christ’s throne. The kingdom of David is Christ’s kingdom, and David and Christ have one throne (Isa. 9:7; 16:5; Luke 1:32; Acts 2:29-31). The prophets spoke of David and Christ as one (Jer. 30:9; Ezek. 34:23-24; 37:24-25; Hosea 3:5; Amos 9:11). Christ is the real David (Matt. 12:3-4…). Hence, God’s response to David [in 2 Samuel 7:12] made Christ one with David and with David’s seed. This implies that God’s intention in His economy is to build Himself in Christ into His chosen people, making Him and His people one. God’s intention from eternity to eternity is to make Himself us that we may become Him in life, in nature, and in constitution but not in the Godhead. Eventually, through God’s building work the all-inclusive and all-extensive Christ, the embodiment of the Triune God, becomes every member in the Body of Christ and every person in the new man (1 Cor. 12:12; Col. 3:10-11). In the church, in the Body, and in the new man, Christ is all, and He is in all. (2 Sam. 7:16, footnote 1)

Corporate Reading: “The Orthodoxy of the Church” Ch. 9: Conclusion

MINISTRY PORTIONS 

We should never think that as soon as one becomes a Christian, he automatically knows how to pray and read the Word. It is not that simple. If a Christian truly touches the key to prayer and reading the Word, he is on his way to enjoying God daily. Let us now consider how to enjoy God through prayer.

Prayer Being to Breathe in God

Prayer is not mainly a matter of coming to God to ask for something. The meaning of prayer is not to ask God to do something for us. The primary significance of prayer is to breathe in God, to absorb God. When we pray, we should not have a motive or intention of asking God to do something for us; rather, our intention should be to breathe in God and absorb Him. Regrettably, many Christians misunderstand the meaning of prayer. They think that we need to pray to God in order to ask for help because there are things that we cannot do. Let me say strongly, this is not prayer. Real prayer has nothing to do with asking God for help.

Simply put, prayer is our spiritual breathing. We all know what it is to breathe. When we breathe out, we exhale the carbon dioxide that is within us. When we breathe in, we inhale the oxygen that is outside of us. This is what happens when we breathe in and breathe out. In prayer we do the same thing—we breathe out what is within us, and we breathe in what is in God. Everything that we have in our natural being can be compared to carbon dioxide, and everything that God is can be compared to oxygen. When we pray, we breathe out everything undesirable, and we breathe in everything of God.

Excerpts from “How to Enjoy God and How to Practice the Enjoyment of God”, Chapter 5: How to Enjoy God in Prayer (Section 1)